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As the year grinds to a halt, let’s hand out awards to newsmakers and headline grabbers who gave us much to talk about. The Survivor – Desmond Kuek For much of the year, Desmond Kuek was Dead Man Walking of Singapore. It’s no joke to be in that dreaded situation, with people are calling for the axe to fall on you everyday.... 

The idea that generals can do no wrong is so pervasive in Singapore that we ought to worry where it will take us. It’s no secret that the SAF has become a prodigious breeding ground for high fliers and PAP politicians. Year after year, dozens of high-ranking officers, many of them generals, emerge to take up key positions... 

In the run up and during the festive season in 2015 and 2016, the cybernuts were having a great time sneering and jeering at the 70%  as they smoked weed, drank cheap arak and ate the scraps thrown from millionaire ministers’ tables. They were so happy because conomic growth was only 1.5% and 2% in these yrs, They were so...